The NYPD Tapes
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Staying on the subject of law and order in the USA - he's another depressing story (+ documentary evidence) of corruption in an American police force:
"Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, he began carrying around a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
He recorded precinct roll calls. He recorded his precinct commander and other supervisors. He recorded street encounters. He recorded small talk and stationhouse banter. In all, he surreptitiously collected hundreds of hours of cops talking about their jobs.
Made without the knowledge or approval of the NYPD, the tapes—made between June 1, 2008, and October 31, 2009, in the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant and obtained exclusively by the Voice—provide an unprecedented portrait of what it's like to work as a cop in this city.
They reveal that precinct bosses threaten street cops if they don't make their quotas of arrests and stop-and-frisks, but also tell them not to take certain robbery reports in order to manipulate crime statistics. The tapes also refer to command officers calling crime victims directly to intimidate them about their complaints [...]"
- e-pill0
wow this is insane but feels like its nyc cops its actually really nice to have these thick accents play in the back ground while i work, its like im working outside.. this is my new playlist!!
:)
- erikjonsson0
heh thats where i lived last year. 2 stations around my block, didnt stop the shooting in tompkins every other night
- georgesIII0
did he suicided himself with 5 fatal shot in the head?
- autoflavour0
this is going to open a massive can of worms of people arguing they were wrongly arrested.
- inteliboy0
can you download the audio? can only find clips streaming.
- akrokdesign0
oboy, this really sucks.
- akrok0
looks like no major newspaper wrote anything about it.
- bliznutty0
its like this guy joined the crips or the bloods and didn't like how they murdered people or did gang 'activity'..
- dopepope0
The cops are in a very good light right now for their efforts in Times Sq. This story will be swept under the rug. And every New Yorker knows this shit anyway.